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Graham Phillips managed to get himself perma-banned from Twitter https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1065005591578451971?s=21 Russia also lost the vote on the new head of Interpol https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1065142199204098048
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Brown Moses posted:Graham Phillips managed to get himself perma-banned from Twitter This is feel-good post of the day so far
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^^^ Poor sex tourist Graham. He'll have to stick to VK from here on out. ^^^ https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1065201997933101056 Sorry, Vova, you don't get to run the world cop shop after all. HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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Doctor Malaver posted:Wow, great work... This reads like a Le Carre novel. I suppose so, I've never read a spy novel. That's Norway. Our navy is pretty much just a joke, a tiny showpiece, we can't even afford to take most of our dumb ships out of port. Like most other small NATO countries we are in reality entirely dependent on the US for defense.
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What's the deal with heating situation in Ukraine?
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Russian aligned media present it as some massive organizational fuckup with people storming heating rooms (whatever you call that place providing heat for many buildings). I know some posters in the thread have families in Ukraine and I was hoping for a first-hand info.
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Gramp reported that they turned on heating a week or maybe two ago(but not before it got to like 12 degrees indoor lol) but I'll check if something happened since then. A massive fuckup is not unexpected of course but it could also be a local or regional thing only.
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Randarkman posted:That's Norway. Our navy is pretty much just a joke, a tiny showpiece, we can't even afford to take most of our dumb ships out of port. Like most other small NATO countries we are in reality entirely dependent on the US for defense. Considering that Norway is actually rich as hell, you can perfectly afford it. If there's no money in the budget then that is a choice that's been made. That it is hard to maintain a credible defense as a single country is kind of the point of NATO, so contributing some high end frigates shouldn't be treated as a showpiece. You start adding up all those European nato frigates of small-medium sized countries and that becomes a significant number.
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Brown Moses posted:Russia also lost the vote on the new head of Interpol A lot of the articles before the vote were saying that Prokopchuk was the "favored" candidate or that he was "leading" but didn't say why, and that seems like a pretty decisive result. Did last-minute agitation sink him or was calling him the front-runner overstating it?
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AlexanderCA posted:Considering that Norway is actually rich as hell, you can perfectly afford it. If there's no money in the budget then that is a choice that's been made. That it is hard to maintain a credible defense as a single country is kind of the point of NATO, so contributing some high end frigates shouldn't be treated as a showpiece. You start adding up all those European nato frigates of small-medium sized countries and that becomes a significant number. The point being that a frigate from a small NATO country which doesn't spend alot on defense* is not even remotely in the same ballpark as the flagship of the Russian navy. *And alot of that expenditure goes to dumb boondoggles such as the F-35, rather than a navy and coast guard which would actually be useful for us, we lack the infrastructure, logistics and the budget to regularly send our ships out of port and to maintain them if they were ever really put to use. Most of it is just sitting around, gathering barnacles. I also can't imagine that maintaining the principle of 1-year conscription is a very good use of resources for a military which is in practice a small volunteer force but still pretty much has to dismiss and train a new crop of recruits every year. Though the fact that our army doesn't even have any divisions any more, probably cuts down some on cost. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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Huh, WP lists Norway as using F-35s. Would have thought they would use Gripens... Come to think of it, whatever happened to Ukraine licensing those?
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OddObserver posted:Huh, WP lists Norway as using F-35s. Would have thought they would use Gripens... Why, out of Scandinavian solidarity? Norway and Denmark are in NATO and therefore dutifully bought the F-35 as is required of them. It's actually extremely difficult to sell European aircraft to European countries. Austria bought the Typhoon thanks to massive corruption from Airbus, Czechia and Hungary are using the Gripen because they could lease them instead of purchasing them. And that's all. Everyone else buys American if they can't make their own aircraft.
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Also, new head of GRU is expected to be a St. Petersburg intelligence official, well known for being Putin’s eyes and ears in GRU.
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And so that we don't forget: quote:Korobov's predecessor, Igor Sergun, died suddenly on January 3, 2016. Must be a stressful gig.
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Igor Korobov died after a long and serious illness that started on January 3, 2016.
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Amazing how in Russia all the right people die at the right time so conveniently.
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Shame he missed this:quote:Second GRU Officer Indicted in Montenegro Coup Unmasked More on the link, but I think that's now the fourth GRU agent we've exposed.
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Brown Moses posted:Shame he missed this: Much like mice however if you see one there's more. Shame Putin didn't get control of Interpol, isn't it? /sarcasm
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Nenonen posted:Igor Korobov died after a long and serious illness that started on January 3, 2016. I loled irl at this bit from the article: quote:According to a report by Sergey Kanev published at Dossier Center in October, Korobov reportedly started feeling unwell after a severe reprimand from President Putin in mid-September
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I like to imagine that Putin runs his organizations like SPECTRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIwUxmtX5U&t=68s
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SPECTRE is literally based on the KGB, so, yeah, kinda. I mean, they poison people's tea with polonium and go out of their way to very publicly and obviously execute dissidents and insufficient performers. Fleming didn't get all of it from nowhere.
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Kerch strait really spicy today.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Kerch strait really spicy today. no kidding: https://twitter.com/christopherjm/status/1066648584924348417
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Ukraine sent two artillery ships from Mariupol to Kerch strait a bit earlier, in response to the incident. FSB reported this publicly, with open taunts to Ukrainian government.
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And gives the Russians an excuse to close the strait down to shipping traffic. Seems like this was all part of the plan.
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mobby_6kl posted:Gramp reported that they turned on heating a week or maybe two ago(but not before it got to like 12 degrees indoor lol) but I'll check if something happened since then. A massive fuckup is not unexpected of course but it could also be a local or regional thing only. Plus people are not happy with gas prices going up again. I highly doubt Poroshenko will get re-elected.
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https://twitter.com/Eire_QC/status/1066747706238996487 And it appears the Ukrainian ships are ignoring the blockade, or attempting to.
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Rinkles posted:Any updates? No updates for about 40 minutes from official sources. arzy twitter is going wild tho. HorrificExistence fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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This shows the Ukrainian and Russian ships colliding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTSDaCg5xA
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Lightning Knight posted:So... are Russia and Ukraine formally at war? Or will this be like when North Korea shells South Korea and everyone agrees to pretend like it didn’t happen? I don't think anybody in the world knows yet Although they have been de-facto at war for the last few years over the Donbass
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Feldegast42 posted:I don't think anybody in the world knows yet Is this the first naval clash?
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Lightning Knight posted:Is this the first naval clash? There was a Ukrainian boat that was sunk by shore fire a year ago, people blamed the Russians but nothing ever came of it. This is a big escalation though, Poroshenko convined the war council.
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Lightning Knight posted:Is this the first naval clash? This is the first one with bona fide evidence of a Russian ship being involved.
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